Example sentences of "may [vb infin] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smoke detectors may give the first alarm but detection is often by smell and by seeing smoke and flames . |
| 2 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 3 | The Alliance of Small Island States , which includes Cyprus , Malta , the Caribbean islands , Maldives , Seychelles , and many Pacific territories , fear that they may become the first victims of global warming . |
| 4 | LOTHIAN schools may become the first in the country to introduce a blanket ban on staffroom smoking . |
| 5 | This may provide the first observable category of classroom behaviour for a workable schedule . |
| 6 | If the Panel is satisfied that certain information requested at a full Panel hearing is commercially confidential ( such that it would be damaging to reveal it to the other party ) then it may permit the first party to be heard alone . |
| 7 | * Palfrey 's full name is Horatio Benedict de Palfrey , but , as he explains earlier , ‘ you may forget the first two ( names ) immediately , and somehow nobody has ever remembered the ‘ de ’ at all . ’ |
| 8 | Believe it or not , Paul Newman is on hand to play the President and Susan Sarandon may play the first lady . |
| 9 | We may write The first term on the right-hand side is symmetric in i and j , the second is anti-symmetric . |
| 10 | In addition , the Dip.HE may form the first two years of this course pattern . |
| 11 | The shotgun may kill the first but it will scare away most if not all of the others . |
| 12 | You may find the first year 's bloom on the rootstock pleasantly and surprisingly different to the original bloom on its own roots . |
| 13 | For example , if you are consuming lots of cups of coffee or tea , cola drinks , or refined sweet foods , you may find the first week of the diet quite a challenge ! |